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Afrikan Spir

Afrikan Spir
Photograph of Afrikan Spir taken by Fred Boissonnas c.1887 (Fonds Fred Boissonnas, Bibliothèque de Genève)
Born10 November 1837[1]
Died26 March 1890(1890-03-26) (aged 52)
Notable workThought and Reality, (Denken und wirklichkeit), 1873
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolNeo-Kantianism
Main interests

Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir[a], also spelled African Spir (1837–1890) was a Russian neo-Kantian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German, but also French.[2][3][4]

His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality) had a significant influence on several eminent philosophers, scholars and writers such as Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Leo Tolstoy and Rudolf Steiner.[b]


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